What's the difference between bounteous and overbounteous?

Bounteous


Definition:

  • (a.) Liberal in charity; disposed to give freely; generously liberal; munificent; beneficent; free in bestowing gifts; as, bounteous production.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Phil Bentley, MD, British Gas Injecting a different view about vets Pity the poor vet ( Counting the real cost of being a vet , Your Shout, 3 October) who is hard-up despite the bounteous income from all those multiple jabs his profession insists on inflicting on our pets, and from treating the often incurable side effects thereof.
  • (2) Palace’s promotion in 2013, just three years after administration, meant an immediate £66m increase in TV income, delivering a bounteous £23m profit as the wage increase was kept to £27m.
  • (3) Now all the cash is spent, it's still the grand romantic gesture, in another kind of way: dangling a line off the wall at high tide and waiting for a crab, taking him home in my bucket, cooking him on the Campingaz stove, cracking him open and eating him – one of the sea's great bounteous luxuries for nowt.
  • (4) In 1998 he had an outstanding season at Shakespeare's Globe, where he appeared in As You Like It and Thomas Middleton's A Mad World, My Masters, in which he played Sir Bounteous Progress – "gazing benignly", as John Gross wrote, "on almost everything, even his own undoing".

Overbounteous


Definition:

  • (a.) Bounteous to excess.

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